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Creative Arts

Part Five: Home Education? Help!

Part Five: Home Education? Help!

Make a mess and get creative!

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Pauline & Crawford Gribben

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Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes

The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken

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Christopher Snowdon

Why they hated Ann Widdecombe

Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them

Columns
Josephine Bartosch

What is wrong now was wrong before

Julia Gillard should not pretend that the “unintended consequences” of the gender debate were unknowable

Columns
Victoria Smith

Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour

It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party

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Noah Carl

Publishing has an AI problem

From reviews to actual books, creativity is being outsourced to machines

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Alexander Larman
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Restore the King James Bible

Those who are opposed, please consider, in the bowels of Christ, whether you may be mistaken

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Marcus Walker

Fear and fury in Belfast

Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime

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Adam James Pollock

Will Andy Burnham be a literary leader?

Burnham is a rare politician who reads books — but how will they affect his premiership?

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Alexander Larman

From triple lock to price caps

Opinium polling for The Critic reveals the totemic pension policy has entrenched a politics that demands control over growth

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James Crouch

Why we should explore space

Space exploration lifts the human spirit: rather than asking “Why?”, we should ask “Why not?”

Features
Sebastian Milbank

Bye bye, Beeb?

A Netflix-style subscription model is the only way to save the BBC

Artillery Row
Christopher Snowdon

A new town versus an old estate

Development in the heart of rural Oxfordshire will change the ecology of the surrounding area

Features
Charles Saumarez Smith

Fast cars fit for old-school stars

Speed and sophistication once shared the same side of the street

Deluxe
Christopher Pincher

Selling the commons

How Britain put a price on nature

Artillery Row
James Alexander Smith

Our first Catholic prime minister?

Andy Burnham’s religious background has a subtle but deep historical significance

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Eliot Wilson
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